Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Attacking a
Vulnerable
target marked by Valor will put Harrier on cooldown. Quickly consuming Harrier marks will allow you to generate them faster.
Use Behind Enemy Lines for traveling very long distances quickly, for farming minions around the map, or for chasing wounded targets.
Vault is powerful but must be used with caution, as enemies can attack Quinn when she strikes them. Vault can sometimes be used to cross terrain if your back is to a wall.
The Akali Quinn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Quinn, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Akali sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Quinn. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Quinn helps Akali perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Akali plays on the same team as Quinn, she gets a marginal improvement in her complete damage output. This may signal that Quinn helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played with Quinn on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Quinn. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Quinn.
Moreover, when Akali plays with Quinn on the same team, she often takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Quinn does a poor job of protecting Akali in team fights.
There is no perfect companion for Akali that will 100% of the time be her top teammate. Yet, Quinn is a very typical teammate for Akali. By locking into the same side as Akali, she lowers their win rate by -0.3% to 48.8%. This proves that there is only a small strategic relationship between Akali and Quinn that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Quinn has a lower difficulty than Akali. That means Akali players don't need to be very careful when arranging Quinn allies to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing together, Akali players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by pairing Akali and Quinn together, you will not be giving your other allies much utility. Plan to include other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Quinn teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
To truly master Akali to work well with Quinn during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to focus on in your Akali and Quinn synergy build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Akali bought at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Quinn than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Akali had an average winrate of 48.8% helping carry Quinn with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Akali and Quinn pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.8% win rate overall.
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